[rektide]

Wow now it sounds awful for other reasons.

Still pie-in-the-sky, but I still think we've been low ambition & not had good decentralized-identity-preconditions to begin exploring web-of-trust models. Past behavior is a huge indicator, one we can judge, & which many others will have judged. Trying to filter those other judges, decide what trust anchors we have & what biases to give, is a place where humanity would have a lot of freedom to tweak & explore, if we had these modest adequate technical underpinnings to begin to explore from.

But we just lost a decade to blockchain mania & consensus computing, rather than exploring anything actually genuinely distributed & decentralized & non-consensus. Also worth admitting AI just got good enough to convincingly fake being an online person fairly well, which can potentially massively outperform any attempt at moderation & seeking truth/genuineness that humans might ever make; said explicitly, bad/business-motivated actor's ability to fuck up anything but an ultra-conservative/paranoid web-of-trust has gone up orders of magnitudes in the past couple years.

[Animats]

> web-of-trust models

Been there, done that, seen it abused for SEO.

[rektide]

Hi John. Where has it been done distributedly ever and at any decent size of adoption?

To me, the premise that we start with some self soverign moderation opens to the door to endless creatives refinements & betterments we can collaboratively explore? Afaik Earth has never had that privilege, has never really tried this at any degree. We've had some keysigning parties but actual reputation & moderation... no.

Im not sure what evidence we have to stick a fork in this one & call it done. Doesnt feel to me like we hardly ever began.

[Animats]

Google's original backlink-based rating system was a web of trust model. A whole industry developed around gaming it.